A 90 percent decline in nesting osprey on Virginia’s Delmarva Peninsula, documented in a May 2025 survey by Dr. Bryan Watts ...

In the Chesapeake Bay, the osprey population skyrocketed between 1966 and 2022 — an estimated 1,800% increase — said David Ziolkowski, a USGS wildlife biologist, during an early August meeting ...

Chesapeake Conservancy is beginning a new season with explore. org, featuring three live-streaming webcams that take viewers inside the nests of osprey, peregrine falcons and great blue herons.

The Menhaden Fisheries Coalition says the Chesapeake Bay Foundation mischaracterized the survey's findings and omitted ...

Osprey come to the Chesapeake Bay each spring to feed on fish and nest their young. The large hawks have become a familiar sight to waterfront homeowners who like to keep track of nests near their ...

A new study suggests osprey chicks are starving in parts of the Chesapeake Bay because of a lack of menhaden, a primary source of food but also a major industry.

On busy city bridges and along shorelines throughout the Chesapeake Bay region, osprey appear to be fish-feasting, breeding and thriving all summer. But researchers who track dense concentrations ...

They’re also looking in two freshwater locations on Bay rivers where osprey rely on different fish for food. The Chesapeake boasts the world’s largest breeding population of ospreys, estimated ...

Menhaden are a key part of the Chesapeake Bay food chain, serving as a food for striped bass, osprey and whales.For years, the industrial harvest of menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay by Omega Protein ...

KENT ISLAND — The Chesapeake Conservancy announced Friday, March 20, that Audrey, half of a nesting pair of ospreys that make their Maryland home along the shores of Kent Island, ...

In the Chesapeake Bay, the osprey population skyrocketed between 1966 and 2022 — an estimated 1,800% increase — said David Ziolkowski, a USGS wildlife biologist, during an early August meeting ...